The last 2 days I’ve been involved with the Microsoft Tech Summit which is a free event from Microsoft held in cities across the world. The one I attended took place in the RAI in Amsterdam. The event is quite big as there where more than 3000 attendees. The first day of the event they where 2 keynotes. One about Azure and one about Microsoft 365. I really liked the one about Microsoft 365 which was brought by Lori Wright. She’s a GM for Teams and Skype @Microsoft. After lunch I did a session on SharePoint Development in the Enterprise. It was a fun session and I had more than 200 people in the room. Of course looking at the feedback I got for such a big and diverse crowd you cannot please everybody. For some the session was to technical for others not technical enough. The second day there where 2 workshops planned where I helped out the attendees who followed the workshop. The first one was about Microsoft 365 security. Which is actually a topic which I don’t follow that much. So helping the attendees actually helped me also. The latest updates in this space are actually quite cool. And you can really see why Office 365 is getting all the security certifications nowadays because there is so much security build in and available that if you configure it right you and your company should be protected against most threats. The second workshop was about Microsoft Teams. As this topic is more close to my hearth this was actually a really fun workshop. You can really see the void that Microsoft Teams is filling up in the Office 365 space. People are really happy with the Agile development of Teams and the rapid release cycle that the product group is following. I can only recommend that if you have time next year to come to these kind’s of events as the latest and greatest news on Office 365 and Azure are shared here. Or if you have specific questions then there is always somebody from Microsoft or an MVP that available to answer them.

Today the wonderful city of Cambridge in the UK was host to another great SharePoint Saturday. As always in Cambridge this SharePoint Saturday is also a SQL Saturday. This always makes for a wonderful mix of attendees and speakers. This year I once again was given the opportunity to do a session. This time my session was about Bots, the Microsoft Bot Framework and LUIS (Language Understanding Intelligent Service) and how to implement these into SharePoint. It was once again another great SharePoint and SQL Saturday organized by Mark and Paul. You can find my slides below. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me or to check out my code on GitHub.

Last week Tuga IT was held in the beautiful city of Lisbon. This conference is unique because it combines several different technologies into one event. If your into SQL, SharePoint, Office 365, Azure, PowerShell, Windows development then this is a conference for you. And I am sure that I am forgetting something. The good thing about this is that if during the conference you get a little bit tired of listening about the same topic that you work with day in and day out. That you can sit in another totally different session and see how that technology is evolving. During Tuga IT I presented 2 sessions. One about the Azure Container Service and another one about the Microsoft Cognitive Services and in particular about the Language Understanding Intelligent Service (or LUIS.ai) for short. Below you can find my session slides and of course the demo’s I did are on GitHub. I’ve also include some pics from the conference itself.

This week Techorama took place in the great city of Antwerp. This conference has been going on for several years now but this is the first time that they did it in Antwerp. They had a totally new venue which is actually a movie theatre. Yes, you read right. They rented an entire movie theatre to host the conference. I was lucky enough to get selected as a speaker for this conference and for me this was also a home game because I actually am born in Antwerp. I did a session about the Microsoft Cognitive Services and more specific about the Language Understanding Intelligence Service (LUIS.ai). The conference was well organized and the speakers but also the attendees where spoiled a lot during both days. We got ice-creams, waffles, BBQ, burgers and a whole lot more. It must have taken a lot of work for the organizers to setup such a great conference. It was actually the first time that they had SharePoint and Office 364 speakers at the conference. Normally this is just a development conference but now they expanded it for IT pro’s and also included SharePoint and Office 365. They even had Scott Guthrie to present the keynote on day 1.

My slides and experiences from DEVintersection, European SharePoint Conference and unityConnect

Last week I got the chance to present 5 sessions in 4 days in 3 different conferences. You can find the slides of each presentation of a conference at the bottom of this post.

Here you can find my slides from SharePoint Saturday Oslo. It was my first time in Oslo but from what I heard it wasn’t the first time that the people from Norway organized such a great SharePoint Saturday. You can also find some pic’s from the day. Many thanks to all the people involved for having me and for making it such a super SharePoint Saturday.

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Below you can find my session from the Collab 365 Summit 2016.

Here you can find my slides from the Collab365 global conference. Which took place on 19 – 20 October 2016. This event was a non-stop 24 hour long conference on everything SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure.  

Last Saturday the Belgian version of SharePoint Saturday was held in Brussels.

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